I'm a "bit of a neocon" myself. A bit. I don't see what the problem is. We all have different colored streaks in our undergarments than the stain we put forward publicly. He makes music, who cares what he thinks, anyway? I personally hate the who's music. Damn owls.

Yet he was OK with the election results due to continuity or whatever. Shocking coming from someone who grew up in a monarchy, I know.

Sounds like his opinion on American politics is like the superficial "if I have to choose" opinion most Americans probably have regarding English soccer teams. "Oh, that uniform looks cool. The crowd has some nice chants. I'm rooting for this team. They lost? Oh well. Whatever."

Daltrey says the program, which is expanding into the United States after operating in the UK for the last decade, is improving care for teenagers with cancer. "It's looking like between ten and fifteen percent improvement of the medicine, just by giving them a space of their own, so that they can be teenager," Daltrey said.

jrw8778:A pedo with a charity for kids? Hrm, where have I heard this one before?

"From the very beginning I acknowledged that I did access this site and that I had given the police full access to all of my computers," said the former member of the Who.

"As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material readily available on the internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research towards the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the internet, but especially any involving child abuse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/may/08/arts.ukcrime

I'm not defending the guy, don't know him, and I'm probably as cynical as the next guy. But it'd be pretty shiatty for him if he isn't actually a pedo, the way things went. Everyone I've ever heard comment about it since just assumes he is.

Mose:Everyone I've ever heard comment about it since just assumes he is.

I think you're naive. Everyone who gets caught says "I was just doing research." Additionally his response was lacking reason: the only reason to observe child pronography is for purient purposes and/or official proceedings related thereto. Whatever he was researching, the focus would not have been on child porn, but the effects of it. Which you can safely do by supporting victims of that crime, without downloading CP.

jrw8778:Mose:Everyone I've ever heard comment about it since just assumes he is.

I think you're naive. Everyone who gets caught says "I was just doing research." Additionally his response was lacking reason: the only reason to observe child pronography is for purient purposes and/or official proceedings related thereto. Whatever he was researching, the focus would not have been on child porn, but the effects of it. Which you can safely do by supporting victims of that crime, without downloading CP.

I hope your permanently recorded, illegally wiretapped internet history gets read by the "authorities" some day, and can't wait to watch you wiggle and squirm on the hook as you try to defend 1/10th of the shiat you have accidentally clicked on, stumbled across, or didn't even look at, but was seen by someone else on your router after the power went out that one time and it went back to the wide-open out-of-box default settings...

judgemental cocksucking armchair warriors who weren't there deserve that kind of instant karma, you bigoted, self-righteous prick. If he had been guilty, the authoritarian Scotland Yard would have been all too happy to make him suffer for life; just look at Gary Glitter!

I'm not defending the guy, don't know him, and I'm probably as cynical as the next guy. But it'd be pretty shiatty for him if he isn't actually a pedo, the way things went. Everyone I've ever heard comment about it since just assumes he is.

Pedos deserve to burn. Townsend was *thoroughly* investigated and cleared. This has been covered time and time again on Fark, and there have been mountains of evidence presented proving that he was just a guy who let morbid curiosity get the best of him, same as anyone who may have accidentally clicked on a goatse or /b/ or something. It's good to be cynical, but even after all of the evidence for his actual cooperation and relative innocence had been presented, there are still the die-hards out there like the 'tard who replied to you earlier that will refuse to listen to reason and want to happily join a lynch mob like the evil sheep in Alabama that are all to happy to murder an accused black man in the early 1960s. Be glad you aren't one of those mindless monsters that ignore the law and think they are above it.

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros:Daltrey says the program, which is expanding into the United States after operating in the UK for the last decade, is improving care for teenagers with cancer. "It's looking like between ten and fifteen percent improvement of the medicine, just by giving them a space of their own, so that they can be teenager," Daltrey said.

Mose: Everyone I've ever heard comment about it since just assumes he is.

And this is why you should hope you're never falsely accused of any sort of sex crime, especially involving a kid. Even if you're innocent, and it's proven in a court of law several times over, you're still always guilty in the eye of the public.

FWIW, I don't think Pete's a pedo, probably because I read up on what actually happened rather than just blindly jumped on the "Pete's a pedo" bandwagon of public herp-derp.

Daltrey says the program, which is expanding into the United States after operating in the UK for the last decade, is improving care for teenagers with cancer."It's looking like between ten and fifteen percent improvement of the medicine, just by giving them a space of their own, so that they can be teenager," Daltrey said.

Don't really care about Townsend's political views, honestly.

It's good to see these very wealthy individuals putting their money and fame to good use. I applaud them for it.

I don't think anyone cared then either. The neocon movement has been dead since 2004. It served its last purpose with the re-election (re-election-stealing?) of Dubya. It was replaced by the tea party movement, which has also served its last purpose (and failed). It will be interesting to see what the GOP's next marketing strategy will be.

Mose:jrw8778: A pedo with a charity for kids? Hrm, where have I heard this one before?

"From the very beginning I acknowledged that I did access this site and that I had given the police full access to all of my computers," said the former member of the Who.

"As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material readily available on the internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research towards the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the internet, but especially any involving child abuse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/may/08/arts.ukcrime

I'm not defending the guy, don't know him, and I'm probably as cynical as the next guy. But it'd be pretty shiatty for him if he isn't actually a pedo, the way things went. Everyone I've ever heard comment about it since just assumes he is.

I do. The pedo thing was total bullshiat. The way he did what he did was not particularly bright but there is far more evidence he was doing research than fapping to pictures of children.

Daltrey says the program, which is expanding into the United States after operating in the UK for the last decade, is improving care for teenagers with cancer."It's looking like between ten and fifteen percent improvement of the medicine, just by giving them a space of their own, so that they can be teenager," Daltrey said.

Don't really care about Townsend's political views, honestly.

It's good to see these very wealthy individuals putting their money and fame to good use. I applaud them for it.

GibbyTheMole:And this is why you should hope you're never falsely accused of any sort of sex crime, especially involving a kid. Even if you're innocent, and it's proven in a court of law several times over, you're still always guilty in the eye of the public.

FWIW, I don't think Pete's a pedo, probably because I read up on what actually happened rather than just blindly jumped on the "Pete's a pedo" bandwagon of public herp-derp.

T.M.S.:I do. The pedo thing was total bullshiat. The way he did what he did was not particularly bright but there is far more evidence he was doing research than fapping to pictures of children.

Yeah, I hope he's not. Seems like a good guy based on his charity work and whatnot.

imontheinternet:I'd like to think that if I had a child who turned out to be a neocon, I'd still love him just as much.

I know you're probably saying this in jest, but all the families I know that get into serious, won't talk to each other for lengthy periods of time-type fights over politics are generally idiots and/or thrive on drama (same thing?)

I have aunts who are to the left of Stalin and uncles who keep a copy of the Prince at their bedside (well not quite, but you get the picture). They've pretty much agreed to disagree and can give and take good ribbing about it and still laugh it off.